Dean of the Honors College
Associate Professor of English
Guthrie House 201, parolin@uwyo.edu
Biography
Peter Parolin is currently serving as the Associate Dean of The Honors College. Peter
joined the UW English department in 1997. He has twice chaired the department (2008-11;
2014-17) as well as twice serving as Assistant Chair of English.
Peter’s areas of research and teaching include English Renaissance literature, especially
Shakespeare, women and performance in the early modern world, and the scholarship
of food, with special reference to early modern receipt books (recipe books).
For the Honors College, Peter teaches a section of the first-year Colloquium as well
as the long-running summer study abroad course, “Shakespeare in England and Italy.”
Beyond UW, Peter lectures for a summer seminar series at the Stratford Festival of
Canada. In his extra-curricular life, he acts for UW Theatre and Dance and the local
company Relative Theatrics. His favorite roles include Rothko in Red, Danforth in
The Crucible, Holofernes in Love’s Labour’s Lost, Botvinnik in A Walk in the Woods,
Papa/Sims in The Nether, and David in I’m Gonna Pray for You So Hard. Peter also sits
on the board of Laramie Reproductive Health.
Education
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
B.A., University of British Columbia
M.A., University of Pennsylvania
Recent and Upcoming Courses
Shakespeare Histories and Comedies: Uncomfortable Shakespeare
Introduction to Literature
Introduction to English Studies
Selected Publications
Peter Parolin. “The poor creature small beer”: Princely Autonomy and Subjection in 2 Henry IV,” in David Goldstein and Amy Tigner, eds, Staging Food and Drink in Early Modern England. Duquesne, 2016.
Peter Parolin and Susan Aronstein. “‘The play’s the thing’: The Cinematic Fortunes of Chaucer and Shakespeare,” in Chaucer on Screen: Absence, Presence, and Adapting the Canterbury Tales. Ohio State, 2016.
Peter Parolin. “Introduction: Access and Contestation: Women’s Performance in Early Modern England, Italy, France, and Spain,” in Peter Parolin, ed., Early Theatre 15,1, 2012
Peter Parolin, “‘If I had begun to dance’: Women’s Performance in Kemp’s Nine Daies Wonder,” in Peter Parolin, ed., Early Theatre 15, 1, 2012
Peter Parolin, “‘What revels are in hand’: A Change of Direction at the Stratford Festival of Canada,” Shakespeare Quarterly 60, 2, 2009
Pamela Allen Brown and Peter Parolin, eds. Women Players in England, 1500-1660: Beyond the All-Male Stage. Ashgate, 2005.
Selected Awards
College of Arts and Sciences Top Ten Teacher Award, 2016, 2011, 2010, 2008, 2007, 2004, 2003
John P. Ellbogen Meritorious Classroom Teaching Award, 2013
College of Arts and Sciences Seibold Professorship, 2011-12
Beatrice Gallatin Beuf Golden Apple Award for Teaching Excellence in Freshman Level Courses, 2002
College of Arts and Sciences Award for Extraordinary Merit in Teaching, 2000
College of Arts and Sciences Award for Extraordinary Merit in Advising, 2001
